What To Expect When You're Expecting (Book Review)
Title: What to expect when you’re expecting
Author: Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
Genre: Pregnancy Guide
Published: 1984
Rating: 4/5
Synopsis:
This brand new fifth edition is filled with must have information, practical advice, realistic insight, easy-to-use tips and lots of reassurance. You will find the very latest on prenatal screenings, which medications are safe and the most current birthing options – from water birth to gentle C – sections.
Your pregnancy lifestyle gets equal attention, too: eating (including food trends) to coffee drinking, working out (and work) to sex, travel to beauty, skincare, and more. Have pregnancy symptoms? You will – and you’ll find solutions for them all. Expecting multiples? There is a chapter for you. Expecting to become a dad? This book has you covered, too.
Review:
What to expect when you’re expecting is a pregnancy guide book. This book is one of USA today’s “Most influential books” of the past 25 years. And has been described as the “the Bible of American pregnancy”. In 2005, WhatToExpect.com launched. The What to Expect mobile app launched on iOS in 2009 and Android in 2014. In 2012, What to Expect When You're Expecting was adapted into a film.
This book presents advice in a question and answer format. This book covers chapters like
- Begins from suspect pregnancy to nine months of pregnancy
- Pregnancy lifestyle and eating habits
- Exercises
- Labor and delivery
- Expecting multiples
- Postpartum
- Managing complications
- Pregnancy loss
Each nine month chapter includes sections like “your baby this month and your body this month”. These chapters are well organized and gave us so much details for each topics. Each chapter includes baby’s position images. Exercise chapters includes step by step procedures with appropriate images.
Book’s index lists includes additional sources of information and resources like government organizations, associations and foundations.
Altogether, this guidance book delineates every information regarding pregnancy with meticulous care.
I highly recommend this book to all the parents-to-be.
Happy pregnancy and reading!!!
Posts
